
If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening. —
Veronica Purcell

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out. —
Anne Moody

Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage. —
Toni Sorenson

Our hearts speak the same language but more importantly our souls share the same voice. —
Nikki Rowe

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about. —
Audrey Flack

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous —
Agona Apell

It takes
courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is. —
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. —
Salman Rushdie

I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing. —
Ernest Cline

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage. —
John Lewis
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[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly. —
Susan Cain

Have courage" therefore means "Let your center speak. —
Henri J.M. Nouwen

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. —
Seth

She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak. —
Jane Austen

Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year —
Yasunari Kawabata

It takes
courage to speak up for your beliefs. —
Jim George

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth. —
William Hazlitt

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak. —
Euripides

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid. —
Joanna Brooks

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. —
Richard Branson

Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so. —
Nana Awere Damoah

Resounding ... with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable. —
Kathi Appelt

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it ... and even more to live it. —
Criss Jami

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes. —
Maggie Kuhn

Be bold, speak from your heart. —
Nikki Rowe

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. —
Harriet Beecher Stowe

She wondered where this courage had come from, to speak to him so frankly. From Winterfell, she thought. I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell. —
George R R Martin

I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts. —
Stendhal

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace. —
Shannon L. Alder